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Juan Herreros is an architect and one of the founding partners of Ábalos & Herreros architects in Madrid, Spain. In the last decade the studio Abalos&Herreros stood out in the international panorama for establishing an approximation to the project which does not distinguish between natural or artificial aspects, the relative ones to architecture or landscaping. On the contrary, it has turned the amalgam of natural and artificial elements into one of the cornerstones of its philosophy and practice, convinced that this position is the only one able to respond with precision to the new demands of society and the necessity of giving a symbolic content to environmental values which support nowadays the conception of public space. This activity, developed in the academic field is reflected even more transparent in the studio’s built work which focuses on projects dedicated to give visibility to natural spaces, industrial or historical which only a double sensibility, biological as well as tectonical, can transform into new modalities of the public.
Their work, which has been awarded in several occasions, is compiled in a monograph published by Gustavo Gili (2G nº 22), has been reviewed by specialized magazines and has taken part in individual and collective exhibitions such as "Groundswell" (MoMA, New York. 2005) and “Aichi – Eurasia Extreme” (Tokio, 2005).
Its founders, Iñaki Abalos and Juan Herreros are professors at the department of projects of the ETSAM in Madrid where they have been professors for building design in the period of 1984-1988, too. They are the authors of "Le Corbusier, Skyscrapers", "Tower and Office" and "Natural - Artificial". In 1997 "Areas of Impunity" was edited, which compiles texts, work and projects of the studio until then and in 2000 "Recycling Madrid" was published with the same criterion. Recently presented “Grand Tour” (2005) shows the studio’s latest activities at different scale: from small objects to urban space. They have taken part in several workshops and international seminars being named "Buell Book Fellows" and "Visiting Teachers" at Columbia University, New York, in 1995, and "Diploma Unit Masters" at the Architectural Association of London in 1998, as well as "Professeurs Invites" at the EPF of Architecture of Lausanne. In 2004 they started teaching as “Visiting Professors” of the Labatut Professorship at Princeton University School of Architecture.